Why Every Guitarist Should Listen To Gojira! - The Awesome Guitar Techniques They Use!

[@rosisneupane]

What's amazing is joe does all of this while screaming his lungs out. dude's a complete monster with vocals even when he's tapping.

[@PMTVUK]

Agreed! He’s a machine 🤘

[@joonatankaija451]

Gojira are truly masters of rhythm. They employ these unexpected and weird sounds from the guitars to accent the magnificent rhythmic patterns underneath. And those barred 4ths they use often in place of regular power chords creates this very unnerving sound in my opinion, especially when they are played chromatically. Considering the themes of Gojira's songs, they usually fit the mood very well and create a nice resolution when the chorus goes to regular power chords for example :)

[@PMTVUK]

🤘🤘🤘

[@justinhumphrey759]

You spelled meshuggah wrong

[@jordanjoestar8839]

Fun fact, Joe Duplantier often makes hard up/down motions when he holds the neck of the guitar. He said in an interview it's because he prefers bending the neck itself in place of whammy pedals or levers. Of course a pedal does some work, but he can freely just throw it around for very natural sounding pitch changes. He said it helps keep the body of the guitar clean, to make room for his, at times, insanely fast and heavy strumming. Bending the neck in place of a whammy bar is as metal as it gets. Joe is a monster lol.

[@PMTVUK]

Awesome to know! Yeah, he's an absolute beast!

[@ithomas5576]

It's so fun to see someone so passionate about Gojira talk about them! I went to see them in Cardiff just over a month ago and they blew me away. Side note, my favourite song is Oroborus! The tapping in that song is so melodic and powerful it just speaks to me :D

[@chrisgoblin4857]

I didn't get a chance to say hi but I saw you at the City Hall gig. Hope you enjoyed as much as I did. Always wondered how they did the riff in Magma, I thought there was some funky effects going on. Great vid Dagan!

[@PMTVUK]

Haha hey now! Yeah, awesome isn’t it!

[@monstruonegro05]

Gojira is a band ahead of its time, love them! 🤘🏾

[@Fayill]

Can't believe this was 20 min. Felt like an awesome moment in time and space . Learned a lot thank you! I have my tickets bought 😊

[@PMTVUK]

Awesome! Thank you! 🤘

[@allan-shephard]

Truly awesome video. I love Gojira and also saw them live over here in Australia not long ago. Outstanding band live. 😁 On their earlier albums, you can really hear the Morbid Angel influence in their riffs, and even pick scrapes too.

[@JesseRad]

This one was a lot of fun to watch. Keep 'em going!

[@PMTVUK]

Thanks!

[@holysheetproductions]

Dagan is a reincarnation of the character Danny from the movie Withnail and I! 🤘 badass!

[@PMTVUK]

😂👌

[@Diminho822]

fantastic video. Thanks, Dagan!

[@DarrynGrills]

It's great to see attention for Gojira!

[@nathanielsanti752]

Thank you! That bit about the C/G but just those 2 strings gave me some good ideas!

[@tonejx]

Really well thought out video, Gojira are incredible. Love that Joe sings about stuff that really matters, too. They have a lot in common with Metallica for being the best/easiest to learn to play guitar on while not only being extremely fun to play, but also the best songs of theirs to learn to play happen to be really, really good songs. Another trick they use often is really fun to do, but I can never remember what it is called... you actually do one at 10:48

[@guyincognito320]

Really stellar demo.

[@ionothorn4526]

Dude, you nailed it

[@kitson04]

I was at the gojira gig at newcastle aswell they really good live

[@michaelgallegos8811]

That guitar tone sounds sick is that a signature guitar?🎛🥁✌️🍻🎸

[@PMTVUK]

Yep! All the info is linked in the description 🤘

[@timguitar862]

The Russel Brand of Shred!! 🤘🏼

[@daflepail]

what is your feedback on the pickups on this one compared to the fortitude pickup?

[@PMTVUK]

Both are awesome but the Fortitude is something special! 🤘

[@daflepail]

@@PMTVUK Thanks PMTVUK. Your contents just keep getting better and better!

[@DatMetalBoi75]

I personally would've used an EVH amp but still cool video

[@erikberg8352]

Would like to see you doing something like this with a Peavey 6505 or a MXR EVH 5150 overdrive pedal. It seems like a big part of the Gojira vibe is massive gain with total technical control. The Blackstar sounds good with the Charvel, but using a lower tier guitar with one of the gain monsters I mentioned may be more budget friendly.

[@TremoloTim]

my favorite gojira songs are the art of dying and L'enfant sauvage

[@PMTVUK]

Awesome songs! 🤘

[@charlzbryan]

I wish I'd watched this video a couple of weeks ago, they were playing at Nottingham 😢

[@PMTVUK]

You can still rock their awesome techniques now! Get your Gojira chops up for the next time they tour! 🔥🤘

[@mikepeace2112]

I bought this guitar a few months back. Best neck profile I have ever found on a T-style, but my gawd does it need a tone knob

[@guyincognito320]

Looks like it's a winner, just drop new pickups in it. The neck is fantastic, really cool looking wood grain, and typical Charvel playing feel. Doesn't look aggressively like a signature model. Very few Teles with a modern look, a flat radius, heel carve, and most importantly to me, a nice wide nut (1.6875). Seems like all but Fender brands have cramped string spacing.

[@SquareSloth]

Gojira is basically "can i do it?... Yes i can"

[@Papo_Bostero]

Joe Satriani taps with his pic a lot, he is actually the first one I seen it do it

[@lion39]

😎

[@musicnesuten3731]

Something like Balalaika

[@damonstewart70]

Gojira said no British band can touch them

[@JawBuster-qf8my]

That magma riff is a pain to get to sound clean

[@PMTVUK]

Tell me about it! 😂

[@michaelgallegos8811]

Yes I think it is a signature guitar I read the video details how smart of me right ?😅😂😂🎛🥁🎸🍻